Engraving Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick, by William Richardson
Key details
- Object number
- 3.8242
- Date
- 1800
- On display
- No
- Maker
- Hill, David Octavius (Artist)
- Object number
- 3.8242
- Date
- 1800
- On display
- No
- Maker
- Hill, David Octavius (Artist)
Description
Engraving Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick. Shows view over bay with figures in foreground. W Richardson, after image by David Octavius Hill.
In one of his illustrations for the 1840 publication ‘The Land of Burns’, the artist and pioneer photographer David Octavius Hill imagined the farmer and smuggler Douglas Graham and his companions about to set off from the coast of Carrick. On foot and speaking with the smugglers is the teenage Robert Burns. It is claimed that he later based his best-known character Tam o’Shanter on Douglas Graham.
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